Liss, where have you been?!

Wait, don't shoot me yet, I've got a valid reason for not posting in a month! Okay, okay, it's been over a month but here is my reason...

I'm officially part of the Oxford Fashion Week Editorial Team! 

This means I have to write articles, blogposts, attend and write about events and do interviews with designer who are showing at Oxford Fashion Week this November and I'm loving every second of it!

I can't post these articles on my own blog as I wrote them for the Oxford Fashion Week blog and they own them but I can post the links and images on here to get you to read them.

Posts I have written so far:

5 minutes with Grace Golding:

http://blog.oxfordfashionweek.com/2014/10/5-minutes-with-grace-golding.html

Image : Grace Golding

Top 10 High Street Accessories of the Moment:

http://blog.oxfordfashionweek.com/2014/10/top-10-high-street-accessories-of-moment.html

Image: Brompton Clutch, Karen Millen

My First Time Casting with Oxford Fashion Week:

http://blog.oxfordfashionweek.com/2014/10/my-first-casting-with-oxford-fashion.html

Image: Oxford Fashion Week

5 minutes with Louise Körner:

http://blog.oxfordfashionweek.com/2014/10/5-minutes-with-louise-korner.html

Image: Louise Körner

More Oxford Fashion Week posts will be added into another blogpost when they are done.

I will be trying to get back into blogging on here but neglecting this blog for a little while for the sake of writing for Oxford Fashion Week is worth it I think!

Oxford Fashion Week is running from 3rd-8th November and tickets are still available here:

http://www.oxfordfashionweek.com/tickets.html

Liss x

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Liss Does London Fashion Weekend

Last Thursday, 18th September, I went to Somerset House for London Fashion Weekend which is something I had planned for months as I got the tickets for my birthday and I had been counting down the days ever since.

I had tickets for one trend show which featured 4 key trends that the OUTNET.com think will be hot for Spring/Summer 2015 and also a designer show which was Amanda Wakeley who had already showcased her collection earlier in the week at London Fashion Week. I had front row tickets to Amanda Wakeley and both shows were incredible. I will go into more details on separate blog posts about the two shows.

Before going to London Fashion Weekend I had spent weeks thinking about what I was going to wear and I thought I had an outfit planned but the weather was not as cold as I had first thought it would be and therefore had to almost change my whole outfit. After a lot of 'umming' and 'ahhing' and constantly having the weather app open on my phone, I finally decided on an outfit.

The weather was good and it was a pretty warm day for September so I decided to wear my flowy, very high waisted black trousers from Zara along with a light knit and mesh crop top from River Island. Seeing as it was a warm day, I didn't bring a jacket and I just wore my trusty black sandals from New Look. I almost didn't wear my hat but I decided my outfit needed something else added to it and I needed something to break up the all black so I added my Christy's London fedora to add a bit of autumn colouring.

At London Fashion Weekend there were plenty of boutiques and pop up stores to look around and my friend Alison and I spent a long time admiring the beautiful clothes on offer. The stores were pretty high end high street and a lot more expensive than I thought they would be but their clothing was so gorgeous. I saw a lot of fur around as that is a key trend for AW14.

In between a show and looking around the boutiques, Alison and I popped to the tote bag collection station to collect our free tote bag filled with goodies and we weren't disappointed. The tote bags included a HELLO Fashion magazine, Maybelline mascara, Garnier make-up wipes, Essie nail polish plus snacks and many more little goodies! I was so impressed with the bags!

Overall it was a great day that was filled with fashion and I even saw a few famous faces lurking around, not to mention being ten metres away from Amanda Wakeley...DREAM!

Liss x

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Fashion Show

From reading previous posts from June you may know that on my birthday I took part in a college fashion show. It was a massive stress and backstage was full of people panicking but in the end it was one of the best evenings ever.

We spent all day setting up the catwalk, background and chairs. We had several run throughs of everyone's outfits and with this came stress and a few disasters but it was all solved and turned out so well in the actual show. After run throughs we had a few hours for hair and makeup and it was safe to say everyone looked incredible. 

Then came the show and we were all nervous as this is something us but mainly the second year students had been planning for months and it all came down to this moment. The show was amazing, the atmosphere, the lights, everything was spot on. Adrenaline kicked in and we all just had to go for it.

The photos aren't the best as we haven't had the official ones back yet but when and if I get hold of them, I will definitely post them.

Modelling a friend's top

60s shift dress we had made in our first ever project.

Here are photos of a segment called Sculpted. On the left is my friend Lissy wearing a dress I made and on the right is me modelling a friend's dress and accessories.

These two photos are of a second years festival inspired designs that we wore. (Me on the left)

It was such a fun experience and I cannot wait until it's me modelling my final collection next year!

Liss x

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